Fits, Trances, and Visions
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 25, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780691010243
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Christian religious experience; Religious experience; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Religion; Methodism; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; USA; Psychology of Religion; Spirituality - General; American History; Mind, Body, Spirit; Psychology; Religion / History; History; 18th century; Experience (Religion); Psychology, Religious
First sentence: DAVID HUME looms large in the philosophy of religion and in recent histories of the modern academic study of religion, but little attention has been paid to the role of enthusiasm in his thinking about religion.